The Prior attainment is not a valid code
This is wrong and needs correcting. It is not a judgement call.
In plain English
If returned the Prior attainment level must match a valid code in the ILR specification and will trigger an error if it is not a valid lookup
Why it matters
A record that fails this rule may be excluded from funding until the underlying data is corrected.
Most likely causes
Ranked, because in practice a few causes explain most cases.
Check these first
PriorAttain.PriorLevel
How to investigate
In your system
These steps are system-neutral: they describe what has to be true in the data, which is the same whatever software your college runs. We do not publish supplier screen paths we have not verified, because menu locations differ by version and by local configuration, and a confidently wrong instruction is worse than none.
System-neutral
- Read the official wording for this record in the source named below.
- Find the affected records in your own data using the fields listed.
- Trace each one back to the source system entry that produced it.
- Correct the cause in the source system rather than the generated file.
Building your own map of where each of these lives in your system is the most useful induction document an MIS team can have. How to build one.
How to fix it
Stop this happening again
Fixing the record clears this case. A control is what stops the next one, so each of these names what to do, who owns it and how often.